Man convicted of terror charge tied to Texas cartoon contest
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Source: AP
PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona man was convicted Thursday of a terror charge tied to an attack last spring on a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in Texas, marking the second conviction in the U.S. related to the Islamic State group.
Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem, an American-born Muslim convert, also was found guilty of providing the guns two of his friends used to open fire outside the anti-Islam event in suburban Dallas. The two Islamic State followers died in a police shootout and a security guard was wounded May 3, but no one else was injured.
He was convicted of a conspiracy charge related to plotting the attack as well as conspiring to provide support to the Islamic State group. Authorities say Kareem and the two gunmen, Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi, had researched travel to the Middle East to join Islamic State fighters.
It was the second time a person was tried in the U.S. on charges related to the group. A trial in New York ended a week ago with a guilty verdict against a U.S. military veteran charged with attempting to join Islamic State.
Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/62c21219f37348c0a9d0ee135af02f76/jury-reaches-verdict-man-charged-texas-attack
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